Media: Russian hackers were not able to hack into the computers of the Dutch government
Hackers from the APT28 and APT29 groups, who are behind the attacks on the US Democratic Party servers, tried to gain access to the computers of the Dutch government, as reported by De Volkskrant, the Dutch daily morning newspaper.
The attacks were repeatedly carried out over the last six months and have been unsuccessful.
Hacker groups were testing the capacity of the Netherlands civil servants, sending them phishing messages by e-mail and creating fake web sites in an effort to gain access to the officials’ information.
Earlier, the head of the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD), Rob Bertholee, said that over the past six months, the Dutch government’s networks have been subjected to attacks by hackers from Russia, as well as China and Iran, several hundred times.
"I think this is a threat to our democracy," Bertholee stressed, specifying that hackers have, among other things, tried to get access to the e-mails of civil servants and employees of large business corporations.